On 27 October 2011 06:46, Andreas K. Huettel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a certain size > (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) > the file is "rotated" similar to /var/log logfiles. I.e. the current file > is renamed with a date extension and a > new file is started. This has the benefit that the archived file is static > and will never be retransmitted > by rsync. > For rotation, an arbitrary line-length offset would not be advisable in my opinion. It would need to split at a logical place like before a "release" entry. As for codifying this, applying software to automate splitting changelogs in this manner could be initially challenging as I've seen a few Changelogs with really inconsistent style at the bottom of them. -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz
